Download or read book Desperate Ransom written by Minton Sparks and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2012-07-09 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Time changes nothing, girl, but the size of your underwear...and hopefully your hairdo." Minton Sparks unique brand of performance art has brought the rural South to life for the many fans who flock to her shows and relive them through her audio releases. Now, the Grammy-nominated artist has committed some of her most popular poems and stories to print. The thirty pieces collected here veer from heartbreak to hilarity and back again, as Sparks shares her memories of growing up in small-town Tennessee. This unusual family may not walk the straight and narrow, but they're guaranteed to walk straight into your heart and mind, and linger. Like an old-time preacher, Sparks draws her audience in with compelling storytelling while leaving them with something essential to ponder. Desperate Ransom takes readers on a journey into the heart of an extraordinary family, demonstrating once again that Sparks is a ground-breaking artist--and a true American treasure.

Download or read book Colton 911 Desperate Ransom written by Cindy Dees and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestselling Author They’re about to live through every parent’s worst nightmare… Myles Colton’s marriage is in trouble the moment he takes on a case that puts him in harm’s way—yet again. This time, though, it’s his wife, Faith, and their son who become targets. When the little boy is kidnapped, Myles will stop at nothing to bring his child home safe. But is there anything he can do to repair his shattered family? From Harlequin Romantic Suspense: Danger. Passion. Drama. Feel the excitement in these uplifting romances, part of the Colton 911: Chicago series: Book 1: Colton 911: The Secret Network by Marie Ferrarella Book 2: Colton 911: Unlikely Alibi by Lisa Childs Book 3: Colton 911: Undercover Heat by Anna J. Stewart Book 4: Colton 911: Soldier's Return by Karen Whiddon Book 5: Colton 911: Hidden Target by Colleen Thompson Book 6: Colton 911: Guardian in the Storm by Carla Cassidy Book 7: Colton 911: Secret Defender by Marie Ferrarella Book 8: Colton 911: Temptation Undercover by Jennifer Morey Book 9: Colton 911: Forged in Fire by Linda Warren Book 10: Colton 911: Desperate Ransom by Cindy Dees Book 11: Colton 911: Secret Alibi by Beth Cornelison Book 12: Colton 911: Under Suspicion by Bonnie Vanak

Download or read book Social Ethics in the Making written by Gary Dorrien and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-12-13 with total page 755 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1880s, proponents of what came to be called “the social gospel” founded what is now known as social ethics. This ambitious and magisterial book describes the tradition of social ethics: one that began with the distinctly modern idea that Christianity has a social-ethical mission to transform the structures of society in the direction of social justice. Charts the story of social ethics - the idea that Christianity has a social-ethical mission to transform society - from its roots in the nineteenth century through to the present day Discusses and analyzes how different traditions of social ethics evolved in the realms of the academy, church, and general public Looks at the wide variety of individuals who have been prominent exponents of social ethics from academics and self-styled “public intellectuals” through to pastors and activists Set to become the definitive reference guide to the history and development of social ethics Recipient of a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2009 award

Download or read book Harlequin Romantic Suspense November 2021 Box Set written by Cindy Dees and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlequin Romantic Suspense November 2021 Box Set by Cindy Dees\Linda O. Johnston\Justine Davis\Addison Fox released on Oct 26, 2021 is available now for purchase.

Download or read book Ransom written by Rachel Schurig and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daisy Harris has no reason to suspect that her day will be any different than usual. She'll go to class, alone. She won't speak or make eye contact. She'll spend her entire day doing her best to go completely unnoticed. That's what life is like for Daisy now-an endless cycle of loneliness and fear. A life lived hiding behind the walls she so faithfully maintains. Then she sees it. A magazine, left behind in class. A simple picture-just his face. And it changes everything. It's been a year since she's seen Daltrey Ransome. A year since he and his brothers left town to pursue their dreams of rock and roll superstardom. A year since he left Daisy behind-left her to watch as everything she knew crumbled around her. She's been running from Daltrey ever since, desperate to keep her secret. But she can't run anymore. And now that Daltrey has found her-the girl he's loved his entire life, the girl he'd give up everything for-he's determined never to let her go again.

Download or read book The Florist s Daughter written by Patricia Hampl and published by HMH. This book was released on 2009-01-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This New York Times Notable memoir of a middle-class, middle-America family is a “beautiful bouquet of a book” (Entertainment Weekly). They say “a daughter is a daughter all her life,” and no statement could be truer for Patricia Hampl. Born to a Czech father—an artistic florist—and a wary Irish mother, Hampl experienced a childhood in St. Paul, Minnesota, that couldn’t have been more normal, the perfect example of a twentieth century middle-class, middle-American upbringing. But as she faces the death of her mother, Hampl reflects on the struggles her parents went through to provide that normal, boring existence, and her own struggles with fulfilling the role of dutiful daughter as she grew through the postwar years to the turbulent sixties and couldn’t help wanting to rebel against the notion of a “relentlessly modest life.” Named a Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year, The Florist’s Daughter is Hampl’s most extraordinary work to date—a “quietly stunning” reminiscence of a Midwestern girlhood, and a reflection on what it means to be a daughter (People).

Download or read book Collected Critical Writings written by Geoffrey Hill and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009 with total page 827 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of Geoffrey Hill's criticism spans the length of his career as a pre-eminent poet-critic. The topics range widely across English literature since the Renaissance and include extended studies of major writers as well as essays which confront the problems of language and the nature of value.

Download or read book Jet written by and published by . This book was released on 1996-12-02 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.

Download or read book Jet written by and published by . This book was released on 1996-12-02 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.

Download or read book The Moon Calves and Other Tales from the Pulps written by John D. Swain and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen fantasy horror short stories taken from classic pulp magazines from 1913-1927.

Download or read book John Crowe Ransom s Secular Faith written by Kieran Quinlan and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1999-03-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent interest in the life and works of John Crowe Ransom has brought to light the many apparent contradictions and discontinuities in the career of this important man of letters. A noted poet, Ransom chose to devote his energies primarily to the composition of prose. A southern agrarian in the 1930s, he later rejected the movement as nostalgic and unrealistic. But perhaps more central to his development as a man of letters, he came to renounce all traditional religious beliefs, even though he was descended from a line of Methodist ministers. In John Crowe Ransom’s Secular Faith Keiran Quinlan examines these and other incongruities within the context of the writer’s career and offers a substantially revisionist interpretation of his subject. Quinlan argues that the key to understanding Ransom’s development lies in “his early rejection of the tenets of Christian theology and in his consequent effort at articulating an alternative philosophy to live by.” Ransom’s literary efforts are viewed as a philosophical project aimed at discovering an empirical validity for the world rather than a transcendental one. Quinlan examines Ransom’s development against the background of the literary and philosophic movements that influenced the writer. He shows how thinkers like Kant, Hegel, Dewey, and the logical positivists, and poets like Arnold, Hardy, Stevens, Eliot, and Graves, all made significant contributions to Ransom’s progress. Although Ransom has often been allied with T.S. Eliot, who turned to religion and a transcendental knowledge of the world, Quinlan contends that Ransom’s real sympathies were with Wallace Stevens, who south a suitable substitute for religious faith in the celebration of a world he felt was emptied of its transcendental component. Ransom’s difficulties are in many ways symptomatic of the struggles of our age—the supplanting of God and a supernatural world view by scientific advances, the loss of faith, and thus the need to find an alternative meaning in existence. Quinlan stresses that although the gradual emergence of Ransom’s “secular faith” was a direct result of his lifelong dialogue with the Christian tradition, his final belief was that “‘this is the best of all possible worlds’; inasmuch as it is not possible for imagination to acquaint is with any other world.” Quinlan concludes, therefore, that Ransom belongs squarely in the American pragmatist tradition.

Download or read book A Desperate Business written by Simon Farquhar and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Simon Farquhar succeeds brilliantly (and with real empathy for all concerned) in setting the story in its historical, social and emotional context, with the victim and her family always at the heart of his writing ... A Desperate Business is an absolute must-read.' - Carol Ann Lee, the bestselling author of The Murders at White House Farm Winter 1969. Rupert Murdoch, newly arrived in Britain, has bought The Sun and the News of the World, immediately provoking outrage by serialising the sensational memoirs of Christine Keeler. Watching him being interviewed on television, two men hatch a plot to kidnap Murdoch's wife for a million-pound ransom. But the plan goes wrong. Following Murdoch's Rolls-Royce to a house in Wimbledon, they are unaware that he has gone to Australia for Christmas and loaned the car to his friend and colleague, Alick McKay. On Monday, 29 December 1969, Alick arrives home to find his wife, Muriel, has vanished. She was never seen again. Acclaimed author and journalist Simon Farquhar has spent three years investigating one of the most frightening and perplexing mysteries in British criminal history, which began with a case of mistaken identity and led to one of the first convictions for murder without a body being found. Presenting a wealth of new information and, for the first time, a possible solution, A Desperate Business is a meticulous and sensitive account of a tragedy. It is a story of greed, unimaginable cruelty, and newspaper rivalry, but most of all, the story of an adored woman who never came home.

Download or read book A Father s Desperate Rescue written by Amelia Autin and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest chapter in the Man on a Mission series spotlights a film star in his darkest drama yet. Widower Dirk DeWinter is a screen legend, but his favorite role is caring for his twin toddlers. So when his daughters are kidnapped while he's on location in Hong Kong, the desperate dad enlists the help of private investigator Mei-li Moore to track them down. But digging up secrets from Dirk's past unleashes something more potent—and dangerous—than either of them ever expected. Mei-li knows Dirk is off-limits, both professionally and emotionally, yet she still can't help but fall for the doting father. As their mission threatens to unravel, will they risk their hearts and lives to save the twins—and each other?

Download or read book Ransom written by Julie Garwood and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two Scottish chieftains help Gillian fight for her home, her family, and her father's reputation.

Download or read book Colton 911 Desperate Ransom Operation Whistleblower written by Justine Davis and published by Mills & Boon. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Synopsis coming soon.......

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Download or read book Enslaved written by Mirjam Van Reisen and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2023-01-21 with total page 823 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eritrean refugees are being trafficked and enslaved in Libya, where they are tortured to force relatives to pay a ransom for their release. Labelled with a digital code, they are moved along in the possession of the traffickers through a series of black holes, in which their access to digital technologies and connectivity is highly controlled. They are tortured, abused, extorted and subjected to sexual violence. Many die along the way. If they make it to the Mediterranean Sea, they risk being intercepted and returned to Libya or dying at sea. Over the period of this study (201721), it is conservatively estimated that at least 200,000 men, women and children have fallen victim to human trafficking for ransom in Libya, and the cumulative value of this trade for that period is estimated at over 1 billion USD. This detailed ethnographic study identifies the routes, modus operandi, organisation, and key actors involved in the human trafficking for ransom of refugees and migrants, who are desperately in need of protection. The book is part of the GAIC Research Network and African studies series published by Langaa RPCIG and makes an important contribution to the literature on human trafficking, migration studies, African studies, modern slavery, social protection and governance.